I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

Lin Yan was taken aback and subconsciously typed a reply.

But it still shows no signal.

This bizarre censorship is still going on...

How did Chu Chu get in?

Suddenly, the phone screen went black, followed by a bunch of garbled text.

Lin Yan was startled, but quickly calmed down.

This doesn't seem like the way to sell baby frogs.

It's unreasonable for a parent-child game to forcibly take over phone permissions.

Not long after, a voice came from the phone's speaker.

"Brother! Chu Chu's signal is coming in!"

Sweet, with a slightly childlike voice.

But the next sentence suddenly takes a turn, becoming sarcastic and unsettling.

"Oh dear, the girl with the scissors seems to be surrounded!"

You could tell she was very happy.

"There are so many frogs!"

"Sister is really popular with these frogs, unlike Chu Chu, who only has brother's affection for her~"

Lin Yan looked down at her phone.

The garbled text gradually stabilized and turned into an emoji face.

His eyes were narrowed into two arcs, and a smug little triangle hung on his mouth.

"Chuchu, how did you get in?"

"The outer shell suddenly cracked, and Chuchu managed to squeeze in with great difficulty!"

The emoji changes to a sad face, but then immediately turns into a smiley face.

"Chuchu came in to help her brother, okay? How about it, isn't Chuchu good enough?"

The emoji's eyes blinked twice, as if it were blinking.

"Brother, Chu Chu just scanned the entire area while Sister was playing with the frog."

"Found it! The key to this array."

The core of the formation?

Lin Yan subconsciously looked at Saya, who was still waving her scissors in the center of the frog swarm.

Saya's movements remained swift and fierce, each strike taking away several frog heads.

But the number of frogs around her was so dense that they almost completely covered her.

Her current situation is somewhat like digging a tunnel, the kind where you dig through a bunch of frogs.

"The key point of the formation is in the wave pool."

Chu Chu's voice came from the phone.

"It's the biggest pool on the map, right in the middle of the park, about 300 meters north of here."

"There's something in that pool; it's the root of the rules of this realm."

"If you, brother, can take care of it, all these frogs will disappear."

Lin Yan didn't speak, waiting for her to continue.

As expected, Chu Chu couldn't even hold back for three seconds.

"But Chu Chu suggests that you go there now, brother."

"Just ignore that old woman!"

The emoji transforms into a mischievous face sticking out its tongue.

"An old woman?" Lin Yan raised an eyebrow.

"Saya looks to be in her early twenties."

There was a moment of silence on the phone.

The emoji changed from a playful face to a smiling face.

The curve of her smile is a bit too wide.

"Brother, Chuchu is a post-00s generation."

"so?"

"The woman with the scissors was born in the last century."

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Yan realized that it was indeed the case.

The smiling emoji then turned into a winking emoji.

"So compared to Chu Chu, she's just an old woman."

"And the way she cut the frog was so rough, like she was killing a fish, there was no beauty in it at all."

Lin Yan feigned deafness and ignored the second half of the sentence.

Another crisp snap came from the swarm of frogs in the distance.

Saya's movements remained swift, but Lin Yan noticed that she swung the scissors a little slower than at the beginning.

It seems that attrition warfare is also a burden for old-school weirdness.

"How do I get to the wave pool?"

"Brother promised Chuchu that he wouldn't ask that old woman for help when we get to the wave pool, and Chuchu will tell you."

Okay, now she doesn't even call me "sister" anymore, she just calls me "old woman".

"You think you can just tell me not to call her?"

Lin Yan adopted a somewhat authoritative stance.

"No, no, that old woman is too wicked. Her scissors can even cut off Chu Chu's signals."

"And by the time my brother found the core of the formation, that old woman was still outside fighting with the frogs~"

"Brother, please don't call her that~"

Lin Yan wisely refrained from further provoking the jealous cyber vengeful spirit.

"Okay, I won't call her."

"My brother is the best!"

"To reach the wave pool, walk straight down this road, turn right after passing the rest area, and then go through the changing rooms."

"Chuchu will give you directions."

Lin Yan's phone vibrated, and the aerial view that Chu Chu had sent earlier appeared as a small window hanging in the upper left corner.

Chu Chu hadn't finished speaking yet.

"By the way, brother, be careful of that Chen Shu."

"Chen Shu?" Lin Yan frowned. "The employee mentioned in that report?"

"Yes, Chu Chu has collected some fragmented local files while she was out there."

"That Chen Shu was a former employee of WaterWorld. He has a son with intellectual disabilities."

"His son had an accident here, it seems he drowned."

"Chen Shu later disappeared, and Water World closed down."

Lin Yan suddenly remembered the phrase at the ticket booth: "If you can't laugh, you don't have to laugh."

"So the rules in this field are related to Chen Shu?"

"Chu Chu thinks so, but the information Chu Chu collected is incomplete."

"However, one thing is certain: although the thing here is very strong, its core is very fragile."

Lin Yan didn't ask any more questions.

He put away his phone and glanced in Saya's direction.

Saya had already dug a path through the swarm of frogs, and the remaining frog limbs around her had piled up into a small mountain.

She stood atop the hill, scissors held horizontally in front of her, panting heavily, but her eyes showed no sign of wavering.

"Miss Saya!"

Lin Yan called out.

Saya turned her head, a few green fuzzy hairs sticking to her face.

His expression was very impatient.

"I've found the core of the formation, what about you...?"

"Go quickly."

Saya interrupted him, her tone cold and resolute.

"Give these things to me."

Without any unnecessary words, she simply stated a fact: she was here.

Lin Yan paused for a moment, nodded, and then turned and ran.

The boy and girl were still lying paralyzed to the side.

Lin Yan stopped as he passed by them.

"Come with me, or stay here, the choice is yours."

The two of them were stunned for a moment.

She glanced at Saya, who was still waving her scissors among the frogs in the distance, and then at the abnormally calm young man in front of her.

They all chose to scramble and crawl to catch up with Lin Yan.

Just as the three of them ran out of the water play area, a burst of sharp, scissor-like sounds erupted behind them.

The girl and her boyfriend ran while looking back, only to see the woman's figure being swallowed up by more frogs, and then the frogs being torn apart by scissors.

Faint sounds could be heard.

"Disgusting! Don't touch my hair!"

Lin Yan followed Chu Chu's map and walked through the rest area.

The rest area at the Big Frog Family Water World remains unchanged from three years ago.

It wasn't changed by the rules here.

Colorful plastic tables and chairs were overturned on the floor, and the frog stickers on the wall were already torn.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang behind me.

The boy in the couple bumped into a tilted table.

"Brother, wait for us! Don't leave us behind!"

But he didn't dare stop, clutching his knee and limping as he continued running.

"That person just now..."

The girl echoed the comment.

"Is she your friend too?"

Lin Yan did not turn around.

"My future girlfriend."

The two people behind him fell silent.

This silence probably contains about three hundred question marks.

But no one dared to ask.